Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) Brendan Carr expressed his frustration with VP Harris over the 2021 BEAD plan to connect Americans to the internet. How many people were actually connected? Zero. Goose egg. Nada. Not even one. And the plan cost $42 billion. By the end of September, some people noticed the boondoggle.
It’s been nearly three years since the BEAD program was established – and in all of that time the program has not connected a single household to the internet. “Broadband Czar” Harris’s tenure has been nothing short of a disaster. pic.twitter.com/3qmehkvIM5
— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) September 24, 2024
The 2021 BEAD plan failure
“In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s $42B plan to expand Internet to millions of Americans. Not one person has been connected to the Internet. None,” Carr posted on X ahead of congressional testimony about the matter. “With VP Harris at the helm, Politico recently reported on the “frustration” and “finger-pointing” that now define the program’s ‘messy, delayed rollout.’ One state official described ‘a chaotic implementation environment,’ ‘dysfunction,’ and ‘delays.’ She added that the Administration ‘has provided either no guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.’ The Administration is ‘slowing states down,’ she said.”
“So what has the Administration been doing over the last 1,039 days instead of connecting Americans? It has been layering on red tape and advancing a wish list of progressive policy goals,” Carr continued. “The $42 billion program led by Vice President Harris is being used to pursue a climate change agenda, DEI requirements, price controls, preferences for government-run networks, and rules that will lead to wasteful overbuilding. All of this will leave rural and other unconnected communities behind.” Katie Pavlich at Town Hall
The 2021 BEAD plan is just another coffin nail for the Democrats’ agenda over the last 4 years. They accomplished absolutely nothing but problems for Americans and losses for our pocketbooks. I have Starlink. My recommendation is let Elon Musk do it.
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